and i approve this message. . good afternoon. i'm jessica doyle. jc hayward is off today. right now the suspect in that deadly shooting at a cool doll movie knee -- cool doll movie theater just -- colorado movie theater just wrapped up in court. his hair was dyed red and orange that some witnesses reported after last friday's

shooting. holmes has refused to cooperate. here's manuel gallegus live from aurora, colorado with more. >> reporter: murder suspect james holmes appeared in court this morning for the first time with bright orange-red hair. he seemed to be dozing off at times as the judge advised him of his rights and his alleged crime. suspected gunman james holmes made his first court appearance since the deadly rampage at a colorado movie theater. he was read his rights and asked if he understood why he was in court. >> you shall not harass, molest, intimidate, retaliate against or tamper with any witness to or victim of the acts you are charged with committing. >> reporter: prosecutors were given until next monday to file formal charges. police say holmes shown here in an internet photo on adult friend finder has lawyered up and is refusing to cooperate with the investigation. authorities say it could take months to learn what motivated the attack. the district attorney is considering pursuing the death penalty against holmes.

prosecutors will consult with the families of the victims before making that decision. in the chaos following the shooting, holmes almost got away. he was wearing tactical gear and looked like any other s.w.a.t. team member on the scene except that his gas mask was different. investigators finally cleared out all of the explosives from his apartment, including 30 homemade grenades rigged to a trip wire. police also found a batman mask. the community held a prayer vigil and president barack obama met privately with the families of the victims. he told them he was not there as the president but as a father and a husband. >> we can all understand what it would be to have somebody that we love taken from us in this fashion. >> reporter: 11 victims are still in critical condition. some have had multiple operations, including brain surgery. aurora's mayor is concerned that some of the survivors may not make it. the mayor also said that some of the survivors may be paralyzed for life. holmes will not have bail.

that's the latest live from aurora, colorado. i'm manuel gallegus. now back to you. district attorney carol chambers just spoke moments ago about this morning's hearing. she said the prosecutors will adhere to colorado's guidelines about active cases by not speaking much about it. but she says they are hoping for a fair trial for all the victims. >> reporter: also big developments in the penn state sex abuse scandal this morning. the ncaa handed downing its sanctions against the school. it's paying a heavy price. >> reporter: the ncaa slammed penn state with massive penalties for not doing more to stop jerry sandusky's sexual abuse of children. >> we've kept foremost in our thoughts the tragic damage that has been done to the victims and their families. >> reporter: the sanctions include a $60 million fine. the school will be banned from post-season games for four years. scholarships will be reduced. and all wins from 1998 to 2011

will be taken away which means joe paterno is no longer major college football's winningest coach. >> our goal is not to be just punitive but to make sure the university establishes an athletic culture and daily mind set in which football will never again be placed ahead of educating, nurturing, and protecting young people. >> reporter: the sanctions follow an independent report that found top university officials, including paterno, covered up sandusky's criminal acts. the ncaa spared penn state the so-called death penalty which would have canceled all games for a year or more. the penn state community knew penalties were coming but the scope of the punishment is unprecedented. >> definitely too much. the people who should be punished or sandusky and those who covered it up, not the players and the new coaches. >> all the victims, what they actually went through, that pain will never go away. >> reporter: today's developments follow an emotional weekend.

penn state removed a 7-foot bronze statue of paterno that stood outside the football stadium. the university president said leaving it up would be, quote, a recurring wound for sandusky's victims. cbs news, state college, pennsylvania. >> our scott broom is in state college today gathering reaction to the ncaa's decision. >> reporter: here? state college, everyone expected stiff penalties but what surprised a lot of people was the ncaa's move to erase the winning record of penn state football dating back to 1998. that is the year that coach joe paterno became aware of alleged crimes by jerry sandusky and failed to report them. and it knocks paterno off his pedestal as the winningest coach in college football by a large mar judge. but the erasure of these 109 wins also erases the records of hundreds and hundreds, in fact generations of football players who had nothing to do with the scanned arl and it rubs a lot of people here the wrong way.

>> it makes it really personal because i was there for some of those wins. >> reporter: others are saying the penalties pale in comparison to the crimes of jerry sandusky. >> i grew up in this town that treated joe paterno like a god. the whole kind of apparatus around him was not to be questioned. and i think that all of this just goes to show that you shouldn't worship a human being. >> reporter: regardless of all of that, it is clear that these penalties are going to affect penn state football for a long time beyond the four-year window of the ncaa sanctions. as sports commentator frank deford put t it's not the death penalty but it's a lot like life without parole. scott broom, 9news now. >> what do you think about the penn state sanctions? join the conversation on our wusa9 facebook fan page. 9news now has learned that

mayor vincent gray will be meeting with ward 5 democrats this week. they'll be discussing his political future in the middle of a campaign corruption scandal on the heels of news about a $650,000 shadow campaign. this weekend "the washington post" reported gray's 2010 campaign had a date take base -- database of nearly 6,000 public housing residents. they were targeting in get out the vote efforts. the post says it appears to have been an unauthorized use of the private government information. jury selection getting under way now in chicago in the drew peterson murder trial. the former police officer accused of killing his third wife kathleen savio in 2004. he's also a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife stacy peterson three years later. prince george's county police are hoping you can help find a missing man. take a moment to look at picture on your screen right now. leander cooper dropped off his wife at washington hospital center yesterday morning. he never returned. the 73-year-old was driving a

silver chevrolet trailblazer with maryland plates. the plates read 725m494. if you see mr. cooper, please call police. the humidity, it's back. and that could mean storms this afternoon. so let's get to howard on this code yellow alert day. >> we are concerned about that. we had a nice cool weekend for this time of year. we did manage 82 yesterday and barely 70 in spots on saturday but today already in the upper 80s. we're making a run into the low 90s. that's one of the problems. the other problem you mentioned that the humid -- the humidity. we're already seeing showers and storms in ohio that are diving southeast. it looks like the brunt of this is going to pass south and east of us but we had a couple of light showers nearby right now. we'll look more on that later during big weather but i want to tell you the storm prediction center has the area from the washington metro north of us as well in a slight risk of severe weather. that means they have a little bit of a concern that some of the storms that pop this afternoon and this evening could have damaging wind gusts

or heavy downpours that will be the main threat we'll be watching for you in the afternoon. i'll see you in a few minutes with the full seven-day forecast. a rough start to the week for the stock market as the european debt crisis has worsened. the dow dropped more than 200 points in the first half-hour of trading. that was about a 2% loss. but the numbers appear to be a little bit better right now. at last check the dow off just 147 points. still ahead, the battle against aids. a look at mate major international conference under way in our own backyard. what do you get when you put together bollywood, an oil change and mel brooks? find out in today's daily deals. you're watching 9news now.

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right now $28.99, a 64% savings and this is today's gold boss deal on amazon,.com -- amazon.com. if you have a deal for our viewers, i would love to hear from ow facebook. prices -- from you on facebook. prices at the pump up a third week in a row. the average price $3.47, up 7 cents in the last week. in the greater washington area, the average sdz 3.4 -- $3.49. you can always find the best prices in our area at wusa9.com. just click on pump patrol. repairs all finished after a water main break in arlington this morning. it happened along south courthouse road between 6th and 8th street. crews say they were lucky in this break, that it wasn't too bad or difficult to reach. water back on right now and traffic should be back to normal any moment now as crews finish filling up that hole.

arlington county's board is set to vote tonight on a plan to bring streetcars to columbia pike. the $260 million project would be paid for in the next -- [indiscernible] over the weekend the board approved some money as part of the capital improvement plan but critics say the entire project is unnecessary. coming up, remember that bus monitor bullied by some of the seventh graders on her route? the final total from the outpouring of support. that's coming up. i'm meteorologist howard bernstein out on the weather terrace. the humidity has returned today. temperatures are rising quickly. we're concerned for a few storms this afternoon. we'll take you to break with a look at these numbers. up to 89 in crofton. 48 in arlington. 82 in reston. i'll be back with doppler 9000 hd and have your full forecast when 9news now returns.

the 19th international aids conference is under way right here in d.c. it's the first time it's been held here in washington. on sunsdz people rallied to renew attention to get this threat to global health. surae chinn was on the mall. >> reporter: keep the promise march on washington is happening in the city with the highest rate in the country of people living with h.i.v. , just under 3%.

that number drops to more than twice as many among black men. >> it was a very traumatic experience. for me i think i was in the sixth grade at the time. >> reporter: kevin breckenridge lost his uncle to aids. 85% of h.i.v. patients in the district are black men. >> the family doesn't really talk about it a lot until something like this comes up, but he died way too early. he was in his 30s. >> keep the promise. >> reporter: the rally reminds people of the urgency for action while it empowers others. >> i have nothing to be ashamed about. h.i.v. and aids is still affecting and infecting people. >> reporter: for a quiet reflection, people are visiting the aids memorial quilt, a reminder of too many lives lost. >> a lot of people have forgotten that all these people died. >> reporter: mark wassen was told he was h.i.v. positive 17 years ago this month. >> i was told that i was going to get infections in two years and die in five. and that luckily did not happen.

>> it connects me with these people who have died and reminds me that it's just as deadly of a disease as it ever was. >> reporter: but there's exciting new research and drugs that gives those living with this deadly disease hope. >> drugs are what's keeping me alive right now. >> reporter: global leaders will be meeting all week. kevin breckenridge is hoping they'll talk about prevention and the continuation of funding treatment so that more people aren't added to this quilt or end up like his uncle. on the national mall, surae chinn, 9news now. conference planners are making a concerted effort to get more young people involved this year. nearly half of all new h.i.v. infections are among people 25 or younger. organizers are also using social media like twitter and youtube to reach out to a younger audience. we're going to have more on the conference starting tonight on 9news now at 5:00. of course other anita brikman will be there live all afternoon. it's muggy outside. we have a code yellow. what does that mean for folks at home? >> that means we're going to have a couple of storms this afternoon. when we issue the yellow

alerts, we do that because we want you to be aware that we have a chance for weather that could impact your afternoon. not the red alerts when we have severe weather headed this way but the code yellow alerts is sort of weather could impact those plans and delay you and cause a cancellation of a sporting practice or event. let's get you started. the severe weather area from the storm prediction center is expanded a little bit to cover more of virginia and eastern north carolina. the map had just been across the immediate metro so washington, baltimore, areas north. now you see areas in south also included in that threat for storms this afternoon, this evening. that could have some damaging wind gusts and heavy downpours but the wind threat is going to be the biggest concern out of these storms this afternoon. we've seen our fair share. our day planner doesn't look too threatening here over the next hour or two but we'll see a few storms pop. 92 by 3:00. by the time we get to 5:00, 93. that will be the high for the day. with the clouds cover out there

now, it's going to be a struggle to get a few more degrees from our upper 80s where we are now. 7:00 still can't rule out a lingering thunderstorm although i think most of it by then will be over. 90. by 9:00 we're back down in the mid-80s. only falling into the mid- to upper 70s tonight in town. low 70s north and west. this is what we're looking at currently on the dopplers across the region. you see the heavy stuff here ohio moving toward west virginia, southwestern pennsylvania. locally just some light sprinkles being detected on the doppler radar. to our south some of this isn't reaching the ground. west of hagerstown, especially as you head out toward areas in breezewood, hancock that is, excuse me, going between hagerstown, clear spring and west of winchester. mainly light sprinkles. on live doppler 9000 hd is all we're seeing here. southeast of harrisonburg and southern fauquier county down to around stafford. some very light sprinkles. a lot of that isn't even reaching the ground. temps are running in the 80s right now. low 80s shenandoah valley to the upper 80s in la plata.

86 in cambridge and here in washington and baltimore, 88 with mostly cloudy skies. you see under our michael & son weather camera how we have overcast conditions with the humidity 51%. that's still sticky with 88 and northwesterly wind at 7. heat in the central part of the country. some of that will work its way toward us. we have a concern for a few storms today and tomorrow. we watch temperatures, especially by thursday take off. 93 this afternoon. watch out for the storms. code yellow. tonight 70s. isolated shower overnight. tomorrow more storms possible in the afternoon. 94. wednesday looks great at 89 degrees. as we head towards thursday, super heat, 98 with storms. 96 friday. and we'll be around 90 as we head toward the weekend. storms possible saturday. we'll be back right after this. ♪

i've never felt this way before, but it's a scary time to be a woman. mitt romney is just so out of touch. [ female announcer ] mitt romney opposes requiring insurance coverage for contraception. and romney supports overturning roe versus wade. romney backed a bill that outlaws all abortion,

even in cases of rape and incest. there's so much we need to do. we need to attack our problems -- not a woman's choice. [ obama ] i'm barack obama, and i approve this message. we want to bring you an update on the school bus monitor story you heard b. she was bullied on a route. it was all caught on tape. a online campaign to save $5,000 to send her on vacation shattered its goal. instead more than 80,000 people from 40 countries raised $700,000. she has yet to comment on her plans for all that money. >> maybe she can buy a bus or write her own cookbook because apparently we have a cookbook in all of us. we have sheila here, a cookbook author and coach. you're behind

cookbookconstructioncrew.com. thank you for coming in this afternoon to talk about writing our own cookbook. how does the process start? we all cook. a lot of us cook. we have family recipes. maybe we think this would make a great cookbook. how do you step in and help people? >> more and more people are finding drawers full of their mother's and grandmother's recipes. they realize once they go, they're gone. their family won't know how to duplicate anything. they get the idea they want to write a family cookbook or something from their heritage. and somehow they find my partner paula and i and they get in touch with us. usually we either meet face to face or we'll talk on the phone. i explain how we can help them with the editing, with proofreading, with recipe testing. >> that's vital, right? recipe testing? because you want the recipes in your book to taste good at the end of the day. >> that's for sure and sometimes they don't but we fix them. >> we were talking. you said it's very important to keep the cook or the author's

voice in the cookbook. i think it would be daunting to span that out over an entire cookbook. how do you keep that voice and keep the compelling content in there? >> we're going to go back and forth with the author once we start with the editing. we eddie, paula edits, we eddie individually and we fuse. then we send it to the author asking for their answers to questions or their comments. this goes back and forth until we've come up with something that's as close to perfect as possible and keeps their voice. some people like comedy in a cookbook. other people like shortcuts but there's certain ways that a cookbook has to be written no matter what. and we find that a lot of people don't know what that is, including famous chefs. >> you have been kind enough to bring us some food in and we want to thank sheila. this is cookbookconstructioncrew.com for some ideas.

i'm going to take that waldorf astoria icing may grandmother gave me and maybe think about a cookbook idea. thank you for watching 9 news now at noon. we're back at 5:00. you can check us out 24 hours a day at wusa9.com. have a wonderful afternoon, everybody.